The South's Confederate heroes were military leadersLee, Jeb Stuart,
Longstreet, Stonewall Jacksonnot Jeff Davis and his Cabinet. The
first full-length study of the Confederate Cabinet, Statesmen of the
Lost Cause, is by a Yankee. Pulitzer Prize Biographer Hendrick (The
Life and Letters of Walter H. Page) makes these forgotten statesmen the
biographical find of the year. Individually picturesque, they made
still more picturesque diplomatic history. And Author Hendrick gives
them a large share of credit for losing the War. If that Yankee
judgment seems...